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Solid Slough House action

If you started this series and don't have to read all of them, there's nothing I can say.

Another great read about the slow horses. I don't think it's a spoiler to say that this one's plot is a good argument for reading the novels in the order they came out.

This has everything I want in a Slough House book including tasty surprises.

This was a moving story with characters that stayed with me long after I read the book.

I'm really glad that I suggested to the Ottawa Public Library that they buy this because it lived up to the promise of the first three novels in the series.

Without giving spoilers, it's fair to say that we learn more about what the Asiig are up to with Fergus.

The description for this book and Suzanne Palmer's own words say this is the final book in the series, but I hope she changes her mind. I understand nobody is going to publish a book where Fergus just goes about a quiet life having whiskies with his cousin, bantering with his sister and tending his cat, but it would still be nice to know what happens with the artificial intelligence things and to spend some more time with the weird aliens and semi-sentient space ships.

This was a fast, fun and engaging read. I'm a Hank Green fan from listening to the Dear Hank and John podcast and watching Hank on TikTok. It was fun to see how things he talks about in these fit into and illuminated this science fiction story.

The two-part series was all wrapped up with this one, but I'd be okay if he found a way to extend the story.

A fast and fun read. And bonus: while the cats can't talk, they can type out what they are thinking on special keyboards.

With everything out there about Arthur and the knights of the round table, I've always felt like I should read at least one book about them.

I'm glad this is the book I finally read because it was both gripping and felt really true to what we know of how people lived in those days.

I was nervous that I wouldn't like the new series from "James S.A. Corey" because it would be too much like the Expanse series, or they wouldn't have any new ideas. But it turns out I my fears were groundless.

It's got fascinating aliens, humans that think differently from each other, some of them coping with serious mental illness, and a base human culture that is similar, but fundamentally different to ours.

I really enjoyed this and really want to know what happens next.

This has everything I look for in space opera: - weird aliens who are wildly different from humans, - humans from different cultures with different strengths and weaknesses they have gained from those cultures, - a plucky team of misfits who muddle along and get things done, and - a really interesting story.

Adrian Tchaikovsky completely delivers a sweeping space opera with this finale to his Final Architecture trilogy.

He's gifted at writing flawed and broken characters who persevere, humans from different cultures that influence their actions, and aliens who really don't think like humans but still act in ways that are consistent and believable.